jQuery vs Xajax
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
jQuery · Xajax · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
235
0
Open Page Rank 8+
5,514
6
Open Page Rank 7+
31,187
15
Open Page Rank 6+
71,954
27
Open Page Rank 5+
145,680
44
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
jQuery · Xajax · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
1,602,536
194
Japan
694,689
56
Germany
657,374
213
India
637,845
89
United Kingdom
540,397
124
France
506,084
140
Italy
464,759
119
Brazil
453,310
146
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | jQuery | Xajax |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.9 s | 1.5 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 600 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Sep 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.